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Thursday, 13 September 2012

ERMAHGERD I Blerged!

Does anyone else find the Ermahgerd memes as hilarious as
me?They crack me up for some silly
reason.

So anyway next month is MoFo and I figured I should probably try and get a couple blog posts in as I’m going to try and commit myself to doing MoFo this year.Last year I was WAY too lazy.So I’ve cleared out my camera and here we go…..Remember last time I was talking about me and my friends doing Come Dine With Me?Well here are the pics from my friend Holley’s night. For some reason I don’t seem to have one of the starter or of dessert but I did get the menu….

The bread

The main (she made smash and a frys chicken burger look all fancypants)

And
the vegan white Russian that Holley’s boyfriend made for us. They were good!﻿

I found this pic on my phone and thought it was funny.We went to my cousin’s birthday party a while
back and it was a bit of a drive, we all took a sarnie each.My brother wrote on all the packs so we knew
who’s was who’s – this is what he wrote on mine.His girlfriend tried to be nice by putting a
vegan sunflower on but really, I think the big turd in the middle of the bag is
what draws the attention!

Here
are some cupcakes I made for my friend’s mum’s 60th birthday.The ones that look a little like boobies are
coconut and cherry.I tweeked the basic
vanilla cupcake recipe in vegan cupcakes take over the world to use coconut
milk instead of soy and I added some coconut extract.I dug a little hole out of each one and put
in a spoon of cherry jam then topped them with coconut butter cream and a glace
cherry.

These
are the peanut butter cupcakes from VCTOTW with a basic chocolate buttercream
on top.

Some
pics now from a day out in London with my ladybros, before I went off to Greece
in June.We went to InSpiral and I got
this rather awesome bagel.It had
avocado and raw cheese and some other goodness in it.

And
because you have to when you go InSpiral, I had a side of their wedges and
garlic mayo, both of which are just fucking amazing.

These pics are from a day in brighton.We were supposed to have a picnic but it
pissed it down, so instead we went to WaiKikaMooKau and I ordered a salad as I knew
we’d probably eat again later.But that
was daft because it was massive.This
was the falafel salad and it was really good.

Then
we got gelato from Boho Gelato.If you’re
ever in Brighton, give this place a visit.They always have about 5 vegans flavours on the go.This was bellini flavour and lurking
underneath is their coffee and amaretto (I think!!) whatever it is, it is
freaking awesome.

Then
we went to the pub and got some Rekorderlig cider.I fell in love with this stuff when I was on
holiday, as they sold cans of all different flavours for 1 euro in the little
supermarket down the road.Our post-lunch
cider run became a bit of a tradition! Kip is excited as you can see!

Here are some photos of food from a picnic with my vegan
ladybros, Kip, Jojo & Holley.We all
met 3 years ago on the first PPK Brighton picnic and since then they have
become 3 of my BFFs.I feel very lucky
to have made friends with such funny, intelligent, lovely, awesome (and
slightly ridiculous) ladies.

What’s funny is that at the
first picnic everyone was showing off with making fancy foodz.At this one I was just “I made hummus and
bought bread but I was too lazy to make stuff with pastry so I bought linda
mccartney sausage rolls…” hahahAlthough
Jojo did actually make a quiche and coleslaw.

I did
make cookies though, they are the peanut cookies from the book you can see in
the pic!

After
eating we went to our favourite pub and when Jojo told the barman it was our ‘best-friend-aversary’
(he looked at us funny but then) he gave us free shots.They are fishermans flavour and are
absolutely DISGUSTING. But hey they were free.

Here
is a dumb shot we tried to take of us in the pub using the timer on my phone.
FAIL. Yes we are wearing matching t-shirts.Kip & I found them in H&M and got over-excited and bought them.
Somehow we managed to keep quiet about it for about 2 months so we could surprise
Jojo & Holley with them on the day.

And
here is the awesome brunch that Jojo & her husband Nick made us the next
day – muffins, pancakes, sausage, tofu scramble and taters. It was radder than
it looks!Bonus pic of my knees!

I
shall leave you with a picture of Jazzy.She sat and stared at me like this for hours when I was off sick last
week.Inching closer and closer and
squeaking at me until I got up and fed her.Pain in the ass cat, but I love her.

Next time, I have some wedding food to show you. I have been
to 2 weddings in the last 2 weeks and remember to take pics, even though some
of it was uninspiring to say the least.